...was that it was attached to the rather shapely hip of Denise "Dr. Christmas Jones" Richards in the James Bond opus "The World Is Not Enough." It also provided the most humor: The notion that Richards could use the Jornada to deactivate a nuclear warhead hurtling through a Siberian pipeline at 75 MPH.
...by anything with the word "technology" in front of it. If someone comes up to them with the promise of some whiz-bang system, it seems that the buying decision is predicated on the thin marketing veneer applied to whatever product is being hawked. Politicians are notorious for not "getting it" when it comes to technology.
"Handspring's Treo, the revolutionary new communicator is now shipping. This has been anticipated since October. See the scoop here! This could change the world..."
Right...
Sure...
Probably billed their Handspring client two hours for "posting to leading online community."
The Treo is a great idea that suffers from very poor design. Use it in phone mode, and you've got makeup and facial oils all over your PDA screen. I'll wait.
This isn't a very exciting prospect if it's only playable on Battle.Net as the site says. Well, that is, if you happen to have a dialup nibblenet connection like mine!
There's only one version of the current Linux kernel. There may be too many distributions of Linux, and I think it is safe to say their differences cause confusion to Linux newcomers.
Tomorrow's IT professionals don't understand this simple distinction? *That's* what we're dealing with?
Slashdot introduced me to the PaceBlade notebook. You remember the one launched at CeBIT that had the removable LCD? It had the 400- and 700MHz Crusoe models inside, I think. (I might have the incorrect clock speeds here.)
Anyway, I would've loved to have gotten my hands on one, but they're just a mite too pricey. Maybe it will come down in price, since I suppose that PaceBlade must be feeling the same pinch that all the PC manufacturers are going through. Tough time to be pushing a new notebook, I suppose.
Irvine Sensors puts multiple pieces of silicon in the same package. Matrix is talking about putting multiple layers of devices on the same piece of silicon. Big difference.
I've always wondered why iterations of the ATA standard are always optimized for speed. As fast as this is, it's still only two devices per channel! Hell, even Serial ATA is still stuck with this two-device limit. Is this just a way to keep the overall costs down for the OEMs? (That is, optimize for speed only?) Or is there a technical/signaling reason why this limitation exists?
I can't wait until they finally work SCSI-like device support into the ATA specification. (Hear that, Adaptec?) That would rule. An integrated ATA133 chip with on-chip RAID would be killer.
What legitimate member of the/. community uses a phrase like "mission critical transactional applications and data mining?" This posting reads like a really, really bad press release.
Dataplay discs may be cheap, small, and offer significant areal density, but the drive is completely proprietary. This presumably adds a significant cost to the host device itself.
The world is going to move away from mechanical drives for portable multimedia devices like handhelds and MP3 players. They simply take up too much power to spin the disc and drive the head.
But the funding is coming from a defense source. The primary application isn't cellphones and Walkmans and such. Soliders have to carry a significant load of batteries while on the march. The energies produced from these boots by marching could lessen this burden.
Rumor: Faulty "Super-Cavitating Torpedo" Test
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I heard a rumor that the Kursk sank because of a faulty test of a so-called "Super-Cavitating Torpedo." The technology is said to allow ultrasonic underwater torpedos. The torpedo, in theory, travels fast enough to create a bubble of water vapor around its nose. Since gas offers less drag than water, the torpedo is able to accelerate to considerable speeds. Again, the rumor I heard was that a test of such an experimental torpedo went bad, causing to Kursk to go down.
Okay...Jolene Blalock is pretty hot. Berman hit on the formula with 7of9 and found another nymphette to titillate frustrated teenage boys by juxtaposing a pointy-eared swimsuit model with a cold, emotionless demeanor.
The whole thing with the DNA-encoded secret information. 1) It's unlikely that the Klingons would have such a technology. (In TNG, they hadn't the technical sophistication to fix Worf's broken spine, since they often favored euthanasia to advancing medical science.) 2) I won an award from HP and the ACM for a science fiction story I wrote in which the underground of a plutechnocratic Silicon Valley used the same biological transfer methods as their "underground newspaper." I'm pissed.
Commercialization of the moon won't work for the simple reason that it was recorded during the first landing that the surface of the moon continued to vibrate for 56 minutes after touchdown. If the moon is *that* unstable, I don't see how it could possibly support the construction and structures necessary to anchor and maintain commerce.
The most compelling thing is that this surgery was of the "minimally-invasive" variety. That is, the incision was only about 1/4".
I argue that the market for a transatlantic surgery pales in comparison to having the exact same set of surgical stations within a few feet of one another. The real value is the minimally-invasive part of the equation, rather than the fact that they made a gee-whiz surgery over thousands of miles.
The table doesn't show Debian. As a new Linux user who has chosen Debian as his inaugural user experience, I've been very impressed with the speed and quality of support from Debian volunteers.
Example: When I loaded 2.2r3, the thing wasn't seeing my hard drive. The Debian community (for free and in no time after my request) showed me how to work around the problem.
This charting is more of an indication of the grown popularity of Craig's List over that period, which bumps up some numbers and keeps others from being more depressing than they are.
Lisp is all well-and-good...Until you try to build a multithreaded app.
Re:...so are they changing the corporate name to..
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Or "H-Paq", perhaps?
Merging the Handheld Line
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What is their strategy for merging the iPaq and Jornada lines? The latter would probably be relegated to the low end, methinks. I hope the iPaq stays around long enough for me to save up for one.
I work in San Francisco. Physically, my body is in San Francisco. My mind is someone on the second star to the right and straight on until morning. I think that puts me somewhere in Betelguese or Andromeda. I've got those Russians beat by a mile.
> Although they're supposed to compete with Intel's
> Itanium chips, they only run at 900MHz... > for
now.
C'mon!! Raw clock speed is not the best-- or even a "good" --measure of a microprocessor's performance. You've been reading to much of the rhetorical effluvium that spews from the marketroids in the x86 camp.
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...was that it was attached to the rather shapely hip of Denise "Dr. Christmas Jones" Richards in the James Bond opus "The World Is Not Enough." It also provided the most humor: The notion that Richards could use the Jornada to deactivate a nuclear warhead hurtling through a Siberian pipeline at 75 MPH.
...by anything with the word "technology" in front of it. If someone comes up to them with the promise of some whiz-bang system, it seems that the buying decision is predicated on the thin marketing veneer applied to whatever product is being hawked. Politicians are notorious for not "getting it" when it comes to technology.
Right...
Sure...
Probably billed their Handspring client two hours for "posting to leading online community."
The Treo is a great idea that suffers from very poor design. Use it in phone mode, and you've got makeup and facial oils all over your PDA screen. I'll wait.
This isn't a very exciting prospect if it's only playable on Battle.Net as the site says. Well, that is, if you happen to have a dialup nibblenet connection like mine!
Tomorrow's IT professionals don't understand this simple distinction? *That's* what we're dealing with?
Slashdot introduced me to the PaceBlade notebook. You remember the one launched at CeBIT that had the removable LCD? It had the 400- and 700MHz Crusoe models inside, I think. (I might have the incorrect clock speeds here.)
Anyway, I would've loved to have gotten my hands on one, but they're just a mite too pricey. Maybe it will come down in price, since I suppose that PaceBlade must be feeling the same pinch that all the PC manufacturers are going through. Tough time to be pushing a new notebook, I suppose.
Irvine Sensors puts multiple pieces of silicon in the same package. Matrix is talking about putting multiple layers of devices on the same piece of silicon. Big difference.
I've always wondered why iterations of the ATA standard are always optimized for speed. As fast as this is, it's still only two devices per channel! Hell, even Serial ATA is still stuck with this two-device limit. Is this just a way to keep the overall costs down for the OEMs? (That is, optimize for speed only?) Or is there a technical/signaling reason why this limitation exists?
I can't wait until they finally work SCSI-like device support into the ATA specification. (Hear that, Adaptec?) That would rule. An integrated ATA133 chip with on-chip RAID would be killer.
Never!!! *8-)
What legitimate member of the /. community uses a phrase like "mission critical transactional applications and data mining?" This posting reads like a really, really bad press release.
Dataplay discs may be cheap, small, and offer significant areal density, but the drive is completely proprietary. This presumably adds a significant cost to the host device itself.
The world is going to move away from mechanical drives for portable multimedia devices like handhelds and MP3 players. They simply take up too much power to spin the disc and drive the head.
But the funding is coming from a defense source. The primary application isn't cellphones and Walkmans and such. Soliders have to carry a significant load of batteries while on the march. The energies produced from these boots by marching could lessen this burden.
I heard a rumor that the Kursk sank because of a faulty test of a so-called "Super-Cavitating Torpedo." The technology is said to allow ultrasonic underwater torpedos. The torpedo, in theory, travels fast enough to create a bubble of water vapor around its nose. Since gas offers less drag than water, the torpedo is able to accelerate to considerable speeds. Again, the rumor I heard was that a test of such an experimental torpedo went bad, causing to Kursk to go down.
Okay...Jolene Blalock is pretty hot. Berman hit on the formula with 7of9 and found another nymphette to titillate frustrated teenage boys by juxtaposing a pointy-eared swimsuit model with a cold, emotionless demeanor.
The whole thing with the DNA-encoded secret information. 1) It's unlikely that the Klingons would have such a technology. (In TNG, they hadn't the technical sophistication to fix Worf's broken spine, since they often favored euthanasia to advancing medical science.) 2) I won an award from HP and the ACM for a science fiction story I wrote in which the underground of a plutechnocratic Silicon Valley used the same biological transfer methods as their "underground newspaper." I'm pissed.
Commercialization of the moon won't work for the simple reason that it was recorded during the first landing that the surface of the moon continued to vibrate for 56 minutes after touchdown. If the moon is *that* unstable, I don't see how it could possibly support the construction and structures necessary to anchor and maintain commerce.
The most compelling thing is that this surgery was of the "minimally-invasive" variety. That is, the incision was only about 1/4".
I argue that the market for a transatlantic surgery pales in comparison to having the exact same set of surgical stations within a few feet of one another. The real value is the minimally-invasive part of the equation, rather than the fact that they made a gee-whiz surgery over thousands of miles.
Example: When I loaded 2.2r3, the thing wasn't seeing my hard drive. The Debian community (for free and in no time after my request) showed me how to work around the problem.
This charting is more of an indication of the grown popularity of Craig's List over that period, which bumps up some numbers and keeps others from being more depressing than they are.
Lisp is all well-and-good...Until you try to build a multithreaded app.
Or "H-Paq", perhaps?
What is their strategy for merging the iPaq and Jornada lines? The latter would probably be relegated to the low end, methinks. I hope the iPaq stays around long enough for me to save up for one.
I work in San Francisco. Physically, my body is in San Francisco. My mind is someone on the second star to the right and straight on until morning. I think that puts me somewhere in Betelguese or Andromeda. I've got those Russians beat by a mile.
People oughta listen to me...
Someone has to license this from SRI: http://www.packethop.com/
> Itanium chips, they only run at 900MHz
> for now.
C'mon!! Raw clock speed is not the best-- or even a "good" --measure of a microprocessor's performance. You've been reading to much of the rhetorical effluvium that spews from the marketroids in the x86 camp.